DEFINITIONS IN ORTHODONTICS🔸BINDING: During tooth movement along an archwire, a high couple occurs between bracket and wire, owing to overtipping of the tooth. Binding is the locking of these two materials due to friction. As a result of binding, tooth movement stops. Binding can also occur during sliding of the wire in en masse movements.🔸BOWING EFFECT: Increase overbite by incisor extrusion after a straight wire is placed in incisor brackets and angulated canine brackets.🔸BREAKING POINT: The point at which a wire material fails.🔸CENTER OF ROTATION: The imaginary point around which…
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